We Grew Up Here

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How do you find something that may not exist?

A musician struggling to cope with his split from his lover and muse begins to suspect his past is being erased in this unnerving film starring members of Chicago band, Paper Thick Walls. As songs Liam and Lauren recorded together disappear from tapes and mutual friends deny they know him, Liam hits the road on a desperate journey to prove to himself and everyone else that he's not insane.

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What do you do when you lose everything? When someone that helped shape you, make you whole, retracts themselves from your life, how do you react? We Grew Up Here attempts to examine that feeling of sheer loss, as we follow Liam, a musician living in Chicago who's struggling with his breakup with Lauren. These aren't your usual breakup woes though. Liam attempts to call Lauren - her number is disconnected. He goes to his camera to watch back videos of them together - they become corrupted and become completely inaccessible. The music they recorded together is gone, an old friend of theirs doesn't recognize him, and even their old hometown of Tanglewood, Kansas, where they grew up and lived…

Liam is a musician in Chicago whose past is disappearing after a breakup with girlfriend and muse, Lauren. Something seems off, and then it seems really off. Lauren is gone, and the music they made together is gone, and then the home videos, further and further away it slides, a cliff between reality and delusion, love and mental illness.

A live wire lead performance by Eric Michaels shoulders the narrative, utterly convincing in a trope, ‘is this real?’, that’s dead without a utterly convincing performance. He leads with a natural charisma, all heart on his sleeve, busted from a breakup but desperate to prove that what he sees actually exists, and that his home town of Tanglewood, Kansas has not…

Liam is a musician in Chicago whose past is disappearing after a breakup with girlfriend and muse, Lauren. Something seems off, and then it seems really off. Lauren is gone, and the music they made together is gone, and then the home videos, further and further away it slides, a cliff between reality and delusion, love and mental illness.

A live wire lead performance by Eric Michaels shoulders the narrative, utterly convincing in a trope, ‘is this real?’, that’s dead without a utterly convincing performance. He leads with a natural charisma, all heart on his sleeve, busted from a breakup but desperate to prove that what he sees actually exists, and that his home town of Tanglewood, Kansas has not…

What do you do when you lose everything? When someone that helped shape you, make you whole, retracts themselves from your life, how do you react? We Grew Up Here attempts to examine that feeling of sheer loss, as we follow Liam, a musician living in Chicago who's struggling with his breakup with Lauren. These aren't your usual breakup woes though. Liam attempts to call Lauren - her number is disconnected. He goes to his camera to watch back videos of them together - they become corrupted and become completely inaccessible. The music they recorded together is gone, an old friend of theirs doesn't recognize him, and even their old hometown of Tanglewood, Kansas, where they grew up and lived…